Missouri · Nonprofit
MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE
MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,293 to it, the largest being CIVITAS NETWORKS FOR HEALTH ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $534k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $295k
What Midwest Health Initiative does
Mission
To provide a forum where trusted information and shared responsibility are used to improve health and the quality and affordability of health care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HEALTHCARE CLAIM VOLUNTARY ALL PAYER DATA WAREHOUSEMHI stewards a voluntary all commercial claims data warehouse for the State of Missouri and its bordering MSAs in Illinois and Kansas. The data represents about 1.7 million lives each year.
$391,943 spent69% of program spendingINFORMATION SHARING WITH PROVIDERS, PLANS, AND OTHER PARTNERSMHI shares information with providers on how care utilized by their attributed population compares to that of others. It also convenes community partners to share information and align actions toward improvement. During this period, MHI produced market share reports to inform its partners of the healthcare market in St. Louis. These analyses report on inpatient and outpatient facility services, total knee and hip replacement volume and outcomes. These are accessible on MHIs website by Champions for Health Care Value. MHI also began an event series called Community Connections to engage primary care providers directly in conversation and convene purchasers and plans for these discussions. MHI hosted two events, focused on Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care and Addressing Chronic Disease through Lifestyle Medicine.
$86,264 spent15% of program spendingINFORMATION SHARING WITH THE PUBLICMHI supports the public with insights via reports and websites. The St. Louis Health Stats, a community scorecard, offers employers and the broader public relevant benchmarks from which to compare the results for their population with the regions larger commercial population. The scorecard products were expanded to Kansas City and Springfield to provide similar benchmarking metrics to other metropolitan areas in Missouri and call attention to any location-specific disparities. MHI also produced an infographic about commercially insured patients with a mental health diagnosis. This was shared at a community forum in the spring 2025 and is also housed on MHIs website.
$86,264 spent$173,500 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $564,471.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $361k to $153k (−58%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Linda Brady
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $96k → $16.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bhc Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE raised.
From the IRS filings of MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bhc Foundation · exempt
- Gateway Business Health Coalition · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE?
- MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,293 to it, the largest being CIVITAS NETWORKS FOR HEALTH ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $185,293 in grants to MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE?
- CIVITAS NETWORKS FOR HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing